Docker

Scientific software lacks much of the prim and polish of other types of software - it can be hard to use or find, it might only be distributed as C and Fortran source, and it probably doesn't run on Windows. In addition to being extremely annoying, the reality of this situation severly undermines productivity and scientific progress. What would things be like if installing linear algebra libraries was as simple as installing mobile apps?

Developers are facing big changes in the way they are working since the raise of Docker. It’s terribly trendy and popular. Containers are heavily used to build, ship and run softwares.But what are the biggest impacts and values for the Developers?

Developers can benefit from portable developer environments leveraging the Docker containers technologies. It’s the main purpose of Eclipse Che. During this session we will discuss the various changes containers have provided to the developers, why dockerizing your projects and what are the best tactics to achieve that with Eclipse Che?

In this talk you will get a quick introduction on how to use Docker effectively, especially for development from within the Eclipse IDE.

We will show how the release of Eclipse Neon supports Docker to make it even more integrated into your day-to-day work from within your IDE. In particular, you'll see how you can pull and run an image for a database, build a custom image for an application server, run it then deploy and even debug an application using data volumes, exposed ports and container links.